Theme and Central Idea Practice
📝 Worksheet medium ⏱️ 18 minutes 8 problems
Theme and Central Idea Practice
Grade 7 English Language Arts LearnCrux.com
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Directions
- Fill in each blank carefully.
- Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
- Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
- Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. Match the text type to the likely focus: informational article
Match with:
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2. Which response is the strongest central idea?
3. Match the text type to the likely focus: novel
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4. A broad subject like courage or recycling is a __, not a full theme or central idea.
5. Why is one strong sentence not enough to prove a theme by itself?
6. Which detail best supports a central idea about school gardens improving nutrition?
7. An accurate, neutral retelling of the most important ideas is a __.
8. Why should a summary stay objective?
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. central idea
2. Community art projects can strengthen neighborhoods by building pride and shared responsibility.
3. theme
4. topic
5. Readers need to show how the idea develops across the text, not rely on one isolated detail
6. Students tasted vegetables they had grown and chose them more often at lunch.
7. summary
8. A summary should report what the text says clearly without adding the reader's personal opinion